[ILBBACH]

I don't know anyone of Polish descent, so I'm hoping the brilliant folks at FR can help!

Thanks!

[bigghurtt]

just change "Czestochowa" to "Charlestown".

problem solved

[AntiGuv]

cha' stuh HO' vah

[Fiddlstix]

I can't help you with Polish
But
I'll try to help by Bumping your thread

[Willie Green]

Yinzes hunkies got any ideas?

[Khurkris]

try 'Ses jao' va'...remembering a old Army buddy named Preputnayewicz(sp?)..otherwise know as Putt-Putt.

[Mike Darancette]

Chest-Ta-Ho-va?

[1rudeboy]

I'd like to take this opportunity to say, Polish women are HOT.

[Walkingfeather]

Just emailed your link to one of the posters who is Polish and reads FR in Poland. His name is Matthew Paul hope he can help.

[searchandrecovery]

Well, depending on if you're from east or west Poland, the proper pronunciation is either "Shasta-Cola", or "That's-An-Ow-A".

I would recommend taking a 3x5 card with the name written on it.

[afraidfortherepublic]

My father thought Paderewski was the greatest. I believe he attended a concert in Los Angeles when he was a student at UCLA before WWII. He spoke of him admiringly when I was a child. Thank you for the great story. I did not know this anecdote.

And yes, living near Milwaukee, the pronunciation you were given by AntiGuv is what I hear around town, although I couldn't have figured it out phonetically like he did.

[TomB]

I am giving a speech tomorrow and need to know how to pronounce "Czestochowa"

It's pronounced "Throat-Warbler-Mangrove".

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

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Cz·sto·cho·wa    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (chnst-kv, chstô-hôvä)

A city of southern Poland north of Katowice. Its monastery is a famous pilgrimage site. Population: 258,266.

A list of the pronunciation symbols used in this Dictionary is given below in the column headed AHD. The column headed EXAMPLES contains words chosen to illustrate how the AHD symbols are pronounced. The letters that correspond in sound to the AHD symbols are shown in boldface. Although similar, the AHD and IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) symbols are not precisely the same because they were conceived for different purposes.

EXAMPLES	AHD		EXAMPLES	AHD
pat			boot
pay			out	ou
care	âr		pop	p
father	ä		roar	r
bib	b		sauce	s
church	ch		ship, dish	sh
deed, milled	d		tight, stopped	t
pet			thin	th
bee			this	th
fife, phase, rough	f		cut
gag	g		urge, term, firm, word, heard	ûr
hat	h		valve	v
which	hw		with	w
pit			yes	y
pie, by			zebra, xylem	z
pier	îr		vision, pleasure, garage	zh
judge	j		about, item, edible, gallop, circus
kick, cat, pique	k		butter	r
lid, needle*	l (nd'l)
mum	m
no, sudden*	n (sd'n)
thing	ng
pot			FOREIGN	AHD
toe			French feu, German schön French oeuf, German zwölf
caught, paw, for, horrid, hoarse**	ô		French tu, German über	ü
noise	oi		German ich, German ach, Scottish loch
took			French bon (bô)***

*In English the consonants l and n often constitute complete syllables by themselves.

**Regional pronunciations of -or- vary. In pairs such as for, four; horse, hoarse; and morning, mourning, the vowel varies between (ô) and (). In this Dictionary these vowels are represented as follows: for (fôr), four (fôr, fr); horse (hôrs), hoarse (hôrs, hrs); and morning (môrning), mourning (môrning, mr-). Other words for which both forms are shown include more, glory, and borne. A similar variant occurs in words such as coral, forest, and horrid, where the pronunciation of o before r varies between (ô) and (). In these words the (ôr) pronunciation is given first: forest (fôrist, fr-).

***The Dictionary uses to reflect that the preceding vowel is nasalized. In French four nasalized vowels occur, as in the phrase un bon vin blanc: AHD ( bô v blä)